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Lars Erlend Leganger

@leganger

I'm a theoretical physicist. Sometimes I'm a photographer. I used to be a teacher. Right now: Director – Head of AI at PwC, Oslo.

 Oslo
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Joined April 2008
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Ethan Mollick
@emollick13 Dec 2019
Disorganized email is the best email. This paper shows putting email in folders wastes 11 minutes a day on average. People who use folders take more time to find stuff compared to people who use search, and have no higher accuracy in finding what they want.
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Riva
@rivatez13 Sep 2019
and the winner of best GDPR news story of all time goes to: manchestereveningnews.co.uk/…
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Moshe Vardi@vardi1 Jan 2018
Common Proof Techniques
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hardmaru
@hardmaru26 May 2019
The Bank of Ghana explains hyperinflation to the public 💸 “There‘s no change in value; the value is the same!”
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If someone could explain current politics with the same energy as Ghana did explaining the new Cedi in 2007, I'd really appreciate it
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IKT-Norge@IKTNorge25 Apr 2019
- Åpenhet og presisjon er essensielt for å lykkes med #AI. @Strumke på #NEO2019 i samtale med Ingeborg Frøysnes @jarottingen og @tawaterhouse
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Adharanand Finn@adharanand29 Mar 2019
My new book The Rise of the Ultra Runners is published on May 15. It’s going to be good. Retweet for the chance to win a free review copy ...
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Haziq@hazytalks11 Mar 2019
Difference between Machine Learning and AI 😂#MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #mlvsai #hopevshype #hype #DataScience @ai_memes
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🔎Julia Evans🔍
@b0rk26 Jan 2019
curl
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Google DeepMind
@GoogleDeepMind12 Nov 2018
The BigGAN generators from our paper arxiv.org/abs/1809.11096 are now available on TF Hub (tfhub.dev/s?q=biggan). Try the Colab demo at: colab.research.google.com/gi…
Large Scale GAN Training for High Fidelity Natural Image Synthesis

Large Scale GAN Training for High Fidelity Natural Image Synthesis

Despite recent progress in generative image modeling, successfully generating high-resolution, diverse samples from complex datasets such as ImageNet remains an elusive goal. To this end, we train...

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Charlie King@charlietheking7 Nov 2018
This is my favourite festive GDPR gag of Christmas 2018 so far.
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Jim Stormdancer@mogwai_poet7 Nov 2018
Someone compiled a list of instances of AI doing what creators specify, not what they mean: docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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Askild Bryn@AskildB5 Nov 2018
Sjakk-VM er bare dager unna. Kom i stemning med en ny episode av #sjakksnakk med @HansOlavLahlum. Han snakker blant annet om rollen som turneringsleder, «doping» i sjakk og om parapsykolog-sirkuset mellom Korchnoi og Spassky! radio.nrk.no/podkast/sjakksn…
Magnus Carlsen frykter å tape (1:6) - Sjakksnakk - NRK Radio

Magnus Carlsen frykter å tape (1:6) - Sjakksnakk - NRK Radio

Regjerende verdensmester Magnus Carlsen forteller om veien til sjakktronen, om hvordan han tidvis har lyst til å slå ned konkurrentene og om frykten for å tape tittelen mot Fabiano Caruana i november.

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Andrej Karpathy
@karpathy5 Nov 2018
Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems papers.nips.cc/paper/5656-hi… on some of the new joys and struggles of deploying machine learning models in the wild. Still a long way to go to establish new language and design patterns for programming the 2.0 stack
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Rajat Monga
@rajatmonga6 Sep 2018
Datasets are a great way to push ML forward. @GoogleAI is making them easier to find.
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@GoogleAI5 Sep 2018
Announcing the launch of Dataset Search, a new way for researchers to find the datasets they need, wherever they’re hosted, whether it’s a publisher's site, a digital library, or an author's personal web page. Learn more at goo.gl/BYSouA
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I’m a database, but I self-identify as a blockchain
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Eric Baer@ebaerbaerbaer21 Jun 2018
Me: We might need to take a full sprint to take care of a bit of technical debt. Business: That would slow us down. Full speed ahead! Me: Keep paddling team!
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Andrew Ng
@AndrewYNg11 Jun 2018
AI+ethics is important, but has been partly hijacked by the AGI (artificial general intelligence) hype. Let's cut out the AGI nonsense and spend more time on the urgent problems: Job loss/stagnant wages, undermining democracy, discrimination/bias, wealth inequality. – at Stanford, CA
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Keaton Patti@KeatonPatti30 May 2018
I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of infomercials and then asked it to write an infomercial of its own. Here is the first page.
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WIRED
@WIRED30 May 2018
Researchers at MIT have created a virtual environment where software versions of humanoid robots learn tasks that can one day be uploaded into the brains of real robots wired.trib.al/ZqOA4F9
How to Get a Robot to (One Day) Do Your Chores

How to Get a Robot to (One Day) Do Your Chores

If we are going to have home assistants that set our tables and fold our clothes, we’re going to have to train them in simulations first.

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Koenfucius 🔍@koenfucius19 May 2018
"WARNING. In our butcher's shop we might ask your name and remember your meat-related preferences. If you are worried about this, please enter the shop while shouting 'I DO NOT AGREE!', and we will henceforth pretend we don't know you." #GDPR HT @PhRoose cc @bobnease
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